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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Comfort Strategies to Replace Emotional Eating

A client just asked: “I know I use food for comfort and to soothe myself. What can I do instead?” That is such a common question—and one that can be so difficult to answer--especially in the moment. When we want comfort, food can seem like such a quick, easy, accessible fix. I recommend that you spend some time generating a list of possible comfort strategies. They won’t all fit in every situation, but options are always helpful.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Mindful or Intuitive Eating: Keys for Success

Mindful eating, intuitive eating, and conscious eating are all terms used to describe a way of eating that uses internal cues about hunger, appetite and fullness to guide our relationship with food. Being atuned to and able to listen to our body allows us to know what and when we need to eat. The focus is on learning to eat in a conscious way that helps our body to feel and function well. Dieting, restricting, counting calories or fat grams and focusing on weight are NOT components of mindful eating.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Are You Stress Eating to Calm Yourself? Three easy ways to start fixing the problem

Many busy women overeat when they are stressed, too busy, or overwhelmed. Eating as a way to calm down is a common form of emotional eating. On my website, I gave a list of three things to stop doing so that you could start taking control of this type of overeating. Now it’s time to fill in the gaps. Here are three things to start doing instead. 1. Do get into the habit of asking yourself how you are feeling before you eat. Create a ritual of checking in with yourself before you reach for a snack, stop by the vending machine, or serve up your plate.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

4 Questions to Ask Before You Try to Lose Weight—Again

If you are an emotional eater, an overeater, a compulsive eater or a constant snacker, you’re probably also an expert dieter. Most women don’t just struggle to lose weight once. We struggle to lose weight, to keep it off, to maintain hard-ea ed healthy habits, and—too often—we struggle to lose the weight all over again because we’ve regained it. If you want to avoid the weight loss roller coaster—and the emotional turmoil that can accompany it, ask yourself the following four questions before you start moving forward with your weight loss resolutions. 1.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Stress Reduction Strategies for Busy Women: Quick Stress Relief Tip: Take Ten

When you are under stress and feeling overloaded, figuring out how to make a change can feel overwhelming. Whether its holiday stress, work stress, financial worries, or simply having too much on your plate, stress can set off a vicious cycle that feels impossible to break. Overload, worry, and too much to do can lead to stress eating and emotional overeating, weight gain, insomnia and sleep difficulties, and neglecting the healthy habits and routines that help you fight stress in the first place.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

5 Easy Healthy Lifestyle Tips

Just thinking about shaping up, losing weight, or eating healthier makes many women exhausted. Changing habits is hard work, but sometimes we approach healthy lifestyle changes in the most difficult way possible. Instead of picking your biggest challenge, consider starting where you know you can be effective, where you can get some lasting bang for your buck, and where you can start growing motivation and momentum. Here are five relatively painless and struggle-free tips to help you create lasting healthy habits: 1. Get some zzzzzs.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Business Owners: Four steps to help you truly make time for yourself...and how that benefits your business AND your life

Self- care and me-time are simply not indispensable. In fact, making time for yourself is actually an essential ingredient if you want to thrive in your life and your business. Here are four steps to creating time for yourself and the benefits they can lead to in your business and your life: 1.Examine your mindset about me-time. Are you still struggling with an inner critic who tells you that self care is a pie-in-the-sky luxury?

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Women Entrepreneurs: Are Struggles With Overeating and Weight Keeping You From Your A-Game?

Overeating and difficulties maintaining healthy routines are common pitfalls for high achieving busy women with a lot going on.Stress, the multiple activities we juggle, the standards we set for ourselves, even our hardworking independent attitudes can sometimes get in our way. Do strong emotions or stress impact your eating? Do you reach for a snack when you are stressed or bored, tired, or anxious? Do you nibble mindlessly at your desk? If so, it’s a signal that emotional eating is a part of your weight battle.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Taking Better Care of Yourself: Making Time for Self Care

New Year's resolutions tend to fizzle out sometime in the first six weeks of the year and attempts to make healthy lifestyle changes often die on the vine. One of the biggest stumbling blocks for many busy women who want to make changes is finding the time to actually make them. Here’s a questio I was asked in an interview recently: “How do we justify taking time out for a workout or a healthy lunch or to work on that novel we want to write when our to-do lists are still a mile long? This question is really getting at the mindset we have about taking the time for these things.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

How to Fuel Your Spirit So You Can Be Your Best Self

Whether you are nurturing a business or career, a family, an intimate relationship, or a secret dream, your time and energy are the most valuable commodities you possess. No matter how wisely you spend them, the truth is that they are limited in supply and extremely precious. Another truth: productivity and energy both depend on fuel. Just like our cars, when we aren’t fueled and properly maintained, we don’t run well. When we don’t give ourselves the experiences and care that allow us to be at our best—we simply aren’t our best.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Is Emotional Overeating Weighing You Down?

Are you: * eating when you aren’t really hungry? * struggling with stress or “nervous” eating? * circling the kitchen because you can’t find “the thing” that will satisfy you? * eating when you are bored, tired, frustrated, or procrastinating doing something else? * hungry all the time–no matter what or how much you eat?

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Quick Stress Reduction Strategies for Busy Women: Express Gratitude and Find Your Happy Spot

When you are in a vicious cycle of too much stress, too many demands, and too much on your plate, the most effective stress busting tips are the ones that you’ll actually be able to implement and that can create a shift in how you feel—quickly. This strategy is one of my favorites. It’s simple, and it won’t bog down your to-do list.r

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Spring Cleaning: Ready to dump the nonproductive habits that are holding you back?

Spring is a great time to reassess, reorganize, and refresh. This year, instead of tackling your closets, I suggest you think about a thorough spring airing and cleaning of your life. Too often, busy lives lead us to patterns where we are simply following the bread crumb trail of our to-do lists and not taking the time to step back, gain some perspective, and revamp or refocus.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Emotional Eating Help: Finding Things to do INSTEAD of Eating

If you struggle with emotional eating: stress eating, boredom eating, comfort eating, frustration eating, or any type of eating designed to help you cope with or avoid your feelings, you know that it can be a difficult habit to break. It’s one thing to identify that you struggle with emotional eating, but even after you have identified the feelings and situations that trigger you, it may be difficult to figure out what to do instead of eating when these situations arise.r

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

4 Tips For Taking Control of Stress Before It Takes Control of You, Your Life, or Your Eating

We all know the stress of too much on our plates–too much to do, too much to think about, too many things and people and responsibilities to take care of. Whether you choose to have a lot on your plate or feel like there is no other option, stress and overwhelm may be a reality–and they take a toll. Stress and overwhelm prevent us from being and feeling and behaving as our best version of ourselves.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

How to Have a Healthy Lifestyle Breakthrough

It sounds so simple. If you want to create change (i.e. achieve something you don’t currently have) you MUST do things differently. Yet so many women I work with come to me determined to create lasting healthy changes by forcing themselves to “succeed” at a plan that has failed them time and time again. If what you crave is a breakthrough, than you must do things differently than you are doing them now.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Why Smart Successful Women Struggle with Food, Weight, and Emotional Eating

As we all know, Oprah Winfrey isn't the only smart successful woman who struggles with food, weight, and emotional eating. I work with many clients who have accomplished tremendous things but who see food as the one place in their lives where they can't seem to take control.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Quick Stress Reduction Strategies for Busy Women: Nourish Yourself

For women who are busy, one of the biggest challenges can be figuring out how to keep their personal needs and priorities, including healthy eating and fitness routines, on their agendas when schedules get crowded. While skimping on self-care may seem like a time saver in the short run, ultimately, it can lead to decreased effectiveness and energy. We know that eating well and exercising help us manage stress more effectively, but knowing and doing are two very different things.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

What Is A Breakthrough With Food and Weight Anyway?

If you are like many women who’ve spent a lifetime (or what feels like one) struggling with weight and overeating, words like “breakthrough” may sound like unrealistic hype. For many women who are worn out with food and weight struggles, a breakthrough may feel impossible. Why? Their current mindset is one of “struggle.” This question came up recently as I was talking with a new client. Breakthroughs with food and weight aren’t hype and I’ll tell you why.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Self-employed? How to stop overeating when you are working from home

It’s a refrai I hear a lot: “I am SO busy – I just started a business/have a successful business/hate my job and want to start a business/times are tough at work and they just keep piling on the responsibilities and projects – there is so much to do – I can NEVER catch up – my email consumes me – I’m always working but I feel pulled in so many directions – I’m stuck and I don’t know where to begin – I don’t feel like I accomplish what I want to – I’m snacking all the time/overeating/bingeing in the evening – and I’m putting on weight – life feels out of control but I don’t know how to brea

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

How to Stay on Track with Healthy Eating and Weight Over the Holidays

‘Tis the season for overindulging and weight gain. In fact, Americans gain more weight during November and December than during any other time of year. Want to stay on track with healthy eating and weight loss (or avoid weight gain) over the holidays? Here are six quick tips: 1. Don’t skip meals. When we let ourselves get too hungry, we predispose ourselves to binge eating and to grabbing the first thing we see—not a good weight control strategy. Plan your meals and make sure you provide yourself with a healthy breakfast and lunch.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

The Beauty of Living a Grateful Life

Are you looking for more ease in your life? Do you wish things flowed better? I don’t have a magic solution for you, but I do know a simple tool that, when leveraged, makes life smoother and more pleasant—and it’s free and at your fingertips. How about serving up a bit more gratitude? We all know that gratitude is a good thing. By gratitude, I’m talking about that deep peaceful sense of appreciation and thankfulness we feel for certain realities and people in our lives. Liberally and authentically applied, gratitude has the ability to work wonders.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Is Martyrdom Fueling Your Overeating

Do you overeat when you are stressed or tired or overwhelmed? Do you flop down exhausted at the end of the day feeling like there is never enough time for you? Despite your best intentions, do you never seem to get to that exercise plan, that journal that you want to write in, or that fun project you really want to start? Do you ever feel like no one really understands how much is expected of you? Are you feeling resentful that there is never enough time to get to you? If you find yourself answering yes to any of these questions, it’s time to consider whether martyrdom is havi

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Are Weight and Food Struggles Interfering With Your Professional Success?

Struggles with emotional eating, overeating, and weight take a tremendous amount of energy.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

How To Implement All Those "Best Life" Tips

There are so many good tips and tools and strategies that can help us live a fuller, more authentic and meaningful life. Tips that can lower our stress, help us lose weight, prevent overwhelm and improve our relationships. But learning about these tools and ideas and strategies just isn’t enough. These gems are only helpful to us if we are able to figure out how to implement them and allow them to be useful in our lives. . There is an ingredient that is essential for metabolizing good information. It’s necessary for creating a plan for implementation.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Accepting Gifts

We're approaching a season of giving--an appropriate time of year to examine how well you allow yourself to be given to. Yes, receiving--the ability to fully accept gifts and enjoy and appreciate being given to--is an essential part of the human relationship equation. It is the complement of giving and just as important. Relationships are an ongoing interchange of giving and receiving--reciprocal exchanges of love, ideas, resources, caring. It's easy for most of us to see how people who have a hard time giving to others can gum up the whole process.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

How to Recover from a Bad Day

Bad days are a part of life. We all have them. No matter how many yoga classes you attend or how smoothly your life runs, you’ll run up against one sooner or later. The secret to thriving is learning how to move forward in spite of bad days, not aiming to never have one (although minimizing their frequency is a good thing). Here are some tips for dusting yourself off and getting back on track after a bad day happens. Do you have permission to have a bad day? Make sure that your inner-perfectionist (the one who requires all-or-nothing success) isn’t running your show.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Oprah and Emotional Eating

If you haven't heard yet, you will soon--it's everywhere in the media. Oprah has disclosed that she has regained weight she worked so hard to lose and that she now weighs 200lbs. My heart goes out to Oprah,as well as to the millions of women who struggle just like her. Today, on a morning news show, I watched two reporters banter back and forth about what they believe she should be doing to reach and maintain a lower weight. They discussed their certainty that slower weight loss, smaller meals, and more frequent exercise are just what Oprah needs.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

How NOT to eat emotionally: Ten things to do with a feeling when you really don't know what to do with it

How many times have you started at diet or weight loss plan, a fresh new day of healthy eating, only to feel completely derailed by an unexpected bad day, an awful experience or strong emotions—hurt, anger, disappointment, even boredom—that seemed to magnetically pull you to the refrigerator? We’ve been talking about that in my Coaching Club program and it inspired this post. Ten things to do with a feeling when you DON’T KNOW what to do with it: 1. Breathe Sit tight. Breathe in, breathe out. Feelings come in waves.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Fallen off Your Horse? 5 Tips for Getting Back On

For many, January has a special magic to it. It's the fresh start of a new year--a beginning. The calendar is blank and many embrace the idea of commencing the year with shiny goals, resolutions or intentions. February doesn't usually feel quite so fresh or exciting. If you've started something new, you might be bumping up against the things that have made it difficult to succeed in the past.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Do You Overeat When Life Feels “Out of Control?”

Do you overeat when you feel like your life is out of control, when you feel overwhelmed, or when you feel stressed out? Examining the way you approach the issue of control in your life can have a tremendous impact on how you feel—and on your eating. One of my biggest rules for stress management is that when things feel out of control, it’s crucial to identify the parts of your life that you can control and take charge of these with purpose.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Take Better Care of Yourself: Have Some Pie

A questio I am asked all the time is, "How can I possibly take better care of myself when there is so much else I have to do?" My busy clients tell me all the time that they have too much going on to exercise or eat right or to take time to relax or pursue their passion. They are operating from the belief that they will be unable to take better care of themselves until their life calms down or stops requiring so much from them. They ARE busy, but that isn't what's stopping them. What's stopping them is their mindset.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Emotional Eating Help—How NOT to Eat Your Feelings: Identify the Cause

If you are an emotional eater, you are not alone. Emotional eating is one of the major causes of overeating for women and one of the biggest reasons for weight regain. If you are seeing to avoid emotional eating, you’ve probably already figured out that willpower alone isn’t enough. To effectively stop overeating, it’s important to have a plan for what to do instead of eating or turning to food.r

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Emotional Eating Recovery Guide - Three Things to do Instead of Eating M&Ms

Emotional eating is eating that is a response to our feelings and needs-eating that is not related to a physical need for fuel but to a hunger that we feel when we are feeling something else. It might be eating because we are bored, stressed, worried, angry or feeling helpless. Some of us even get hungry when we're really happy. Emotional eating can be a major problem and a huge barrier to maximizing your success with weight loss. The "M&Ms question" is one of the most common questions I hear.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Creating Your Best Life: Remember to Stretch

As my body ages, I grow more aware of the power and importance of stretching. At some point, it became a necessary part of any workout. In my twenties, I could dash-and-go, but now, if I skip the post-exercise stretch, I notice it. I lose flexibility, I don't feel as good, and my workouts aren't as effective. Post-workout stretching is now non-negotiable. Deliberate stretching in other areas, challenging our vision of who we are and how we define ourselves, is also important.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Are you busy reinventing the wheel when you could be enjoying success?

You have a lot on your plate and a lot of things that are important to you. You've decided that you want to make health or lifestyle changes and spend more of your valuable energy on yourself. You want to feel better and be more of the person you know you can be. The question is, "How do you actually make it happen?" How do you keep your goals on your radar? How do you remember to say no to other requests that interfere?

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

How To Make Time For Fitness

"How do I create a fitness program that will last-whe I'm time crunched, stressed, and overwhelmed?" This is a questio I'm asked all the time: "How can I fit it all in? I know I should exercise regularly but I just don't have the time/motivation/resources/energy to do it." Consistent exercise is a big challenge for many women. Whether you are a busy professional, a solopreneur working from home, or you are home juggling the needs of small children, consistent exercise can be a difficult habit to start AND a challenge to maintain.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

How to Say "No": Four Easy Tips

How much of your time do you spend doing things you don't want to do? Are the things that you "really" want to do, always at the bottom of your to-do list? Do you routinely find things on your calendar that you wish you could "get out of?" I am consistently struck by the powerful, strong, talented people I know--individuals who run businesses, who can be a force-to-be-reckoned-with when called to defend their own families, people who KNOW how to make-things happen, who struggle with how to apply those skills to themselves. A client of mine decided that she was ready to get serious

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Binge Eating: How to Stop Binge Eating and Get Back in the Driver's Seat

Binge eating is eating "gone wrong." Binge eating is eating gone on automatic pilot, eating disconnected from physical body sensations like fullness and hunger. After a binge you may experience a glazed feeling and a "coming back to awareness." "What happened here?" and "I wish I could undo that" are common thoughts. Mindful eating is the opposite of bingeing.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

How to Avoid Stress Eating At Your Desk

Do you find yourself stress eating, comfort eating or even boredom eating during your workday? That's emotional eating. Emotional eating is the eating that happens when you're procrastinating tackling a difficult project, struggling with writer's block, or avoiding a difficult conversation. Emotional eating also happens when we're trying to transform our feelings-like munching mindlessly in the late afte oon in an attempt to perk up or re-motivate. Emotional eating is a major cause of weight gain, weight loss difficulties, and weight re-gain after weight loss.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

10 Tips for Increasing Your Effectiveness (No Matter What You're Trying to Do)

No matter how big our dreams, our time and resources are limited. Moving forward effectively is key. Once you've committed to accomplishing something and putting in the effort, you'll want to get the biggest return on your investment that you can, in the most efficient way. Here are ten of my best tips for increasing your effectiveness and achieving your goals–whatever they may be. 1.Be clear on your final outcome This may sound obvious, but it's surprisingly easy to skip this step. Be as clear as you can about what it is that you are working to accomplish.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Quick Stress Reduction Strategies for Busy Women: Download Your Brain and Get Grounded

If your head is spinning with all you have to do and the feeling of too much on your plate, here’s one of my favorite quick stress relief tips. Download your brain and get grounded. Holiday stress, worries about money, the pressures of work or running your own business, managing schedules, and trying to figure out how to fit in time for exercise—all those thoughts and conce s require a tremendous amount of energy. When you get busy, or your stress level gets high, it’s too easy to fall into a pattern of chasing your to-do list and reacting to your life.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Is Being “Productive” Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Plan? A New Approach for Busy, Over-achieving Women

If you are an over-achiever in the area of health and weight loss, it could easily be preventing the very goals that you are trying to achieve. Women who are trapped in a cycle of constant activity and “always doing more” end up being exhausted and less productive. Looking for the “perfect” solution and struggling to make changes that don’t fit with your needs and your life can create stress and overwhelm and can even trigger more emotional eating and emotional eating. Are you ready to get off the diet roller coaster and create a blueprint for success with weight loss and peace with food?r

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Emotional Eating - How To Take Charge

Are you sick of yo-yo dieting? Do you weigh yourself more than once a week? Do you spend more time thinking about food and diet then you spend thinking about your life? For many women (and men, but especially women), making peace with food is a crucial step in getting on with their life and creating the life they want to live. Many successful, intelligent, highly talented people tell me that food/weight/diet is the one area of their life in which they feel incapable. Diet's don't work--they just keep people dieting (and gaining and losing and binging and miserable).

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Emotional Eating and Asking For What You Want

There are lots of possible triggers for overeating and emotional eating. Many people turn to food when they feel dissatisfied or trapped or unhappy—when life isn’t working the way they want it to. An important and related skill that many people could work on enhancing is asking for what you want or need or dream of. When people explain to me that they can’t get what they want, I usually ask them if they’ve asked for it. It’s amazing to me how often they haven’t. Sometimes there explanation goes like this: “No, I haven’t asked. What’s the point?

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Opportunity, Possibility, and Living Your Best Life

Recently, someone told me about an opportunity she almost missed because it had never occurred to her that the thing she wanted to do was possible. Her story was a good reminder that sometimes, if we are not looking carefully for the opportunity, we miss it entirely. When we are busy and trying to get a lot done, it’s easy to fall into a mindset that limits our outcome and our opportunities before we even begin. Far too many times we set our expectations by thinking about what we’d be “okay with” instead of by thinking about what we really truly want.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Five Things You Can Do Now To Change Your Life

We’re all short on time and we want to spend it wisely. Here are five simple things you can do right NOW that really will make a difference in your life. 1. Set Goals You hear a lot about goals from me because they really are the foundation for change. Set tangible 30, 90 and one-year goals. Write them down and review them every month. Make sure that they are achievable and when and if you feel stuck, do something--anything--that will take you one baby-step closer to your goal. You don't have to know exactly how you'll achieve it when you set a goal.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Three Steps You Can Take To Avoid Stress Eating

Do you turn to food when you feel stressed or overwhelmed? Does a bad day at work send you off track with your eating or exercise plan? Does an out-of-control to-do list leave you craving chocolate? There are ways to avoid the stress eating/emotional eating trap. Here are three straightforward strategies you can try. 1. Know that you ARE a stress eater This one sounds like a no-brainer, but it's an important tip.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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Quick Stress Reduction Strategies for Busy Women: The Power of Rituals and Rest

If you are a busy woman with too much on her plate, you may also be sleep deprived. Whether you are burning the midnight oil, having a hard time shutting down your mind at the end of the day, or staying up late to grab some quiet time (this never really works well by the way), once you are short on sleep, things tend to go downhill. Inadequate sleep impacts your energy and concentration. Did you know that it also leads to overeating and weight gain? If you are sleep deprived, you won’t be at your best. Period. That’s no help when you’re trying to get on top of stress and your goals.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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Balancing Work, Life, and You: Are You Too Busy To Stop Overeating?

Do you have the time to stop overeating? To take control of emotional eating? To get on track with your healthy lifestyle goals? Lately I've been encountering many women who tell me they don't. I've been hearing from women who are incredibly frustrated with their eating habits, their weight gain, their lack of progress on important health goals. I've talked to women who fear their family history of diabetes or heart disease. I've talked to women who've even had weight loss surgery and are terrified because they are seeing the weight they've lost start to creep back.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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